Calvin Miller Quotes

Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.

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• Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Fashion

• There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Song
  • Earth
  • Party

• If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Earth
  • Sports
  • Face

• The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Truth
  • Earth

• I have a lot of love for nature, trees, animals and greenery, and I feel that if I did not exist, there'd be no greenery on the face of the earth.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Earth

• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Powerful

• If China was like the moon, then arriving in Saudi Arabia was Mars. At least you can see the moon from Earth.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Earth
  • You
  • Moon

• I'm never going to be able to leave Mexico, really. It would be foolish of me to do it. I would be wasting such a great opportunity that the accident of life, or destiny, gave me, which is to be Mexican. If we would make 'Lord of the Rings' analogies, I think Mexico City is Middle-earth. That's where the fight of humanity is.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Great
  • Earth

• My ambition is much higher than independence. Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the Earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Earth
  • Ambition
  • Partner

• At no point do the resurrection narratives in the four Gospels say, 'Jesus has been raised, therefore we are all going to heaven.' It says that Christ is coming here, to join together the heavens and the Earth in an act of new creation.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Together
  • Earth
  • Jesus

• With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead, And there of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed: And the first Morning of Creation wrote What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Earth
  • Morning

• A lesser-known fact about the geopolitics of resources has escaped public polemics. This refers to rare earth metals or rare-earth elements (REMs), a set of 17 naturally occurring non-toxic materials, which play a pivotal role for emerging technologies and which are predominantly produced and exported from China.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Earth

• You must cultivate poverty of spirit. Blessed are the meek. She didn’t go on to say anything about inheriting the earth.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • She
  • Earth
  • Poverty

• Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans Way back up in the woods among the evergreens There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood Where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode Who never ever learned to read or write so well But he could play the guitar just like a ringing a bell. Go, go, Go, Johnny go...

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Up
  • Country
  • Earth

• People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

  

  Elias Hicks
  • People
  • Earth
  • Ignorance

• I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida - the worst place on earth.

  

  Eric Andre
  • Up
  • Earth

• Why should we consider defining intelligence as something global and as something that hasn't actually yet appeared on Earth? It may be useful for envisioning the future of our own civilization and any others that may be out there among the stars. It might give us something to strive for.

  

  David Grinspoon
  • Why
  • May
  • Future

• What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it.

  

  Mark Levin
  • American
  • Society
  • Earth

• It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Difficult
  • Miserable

• It is probable that what we call thought is not an actual being, but no more than the relation between certain parts of that infinitely varied mass, of which the rest of the universe is composed, and which ceases to exist as soon as those parts change their position with regard to each other.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Universe
  • Rest

• I hated high school. I didn't have any friends because I didn't fit in.

  

  Chad Michael Murray
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.

  

  Calvin Miller
  • Earth
  • Watches
  • Claims